Reading List

Since April 2025. Updated May 30, 2025

Finished

Boswell, John. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century. Phoenix Edition, The University of Chicago Press, 1981.

Notes: Gay people and Christianity: a historical perspective.

Graeber, David, and David Wengrow. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. Picador / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.

Notes: What we know and don’t know about human history.

Kuhn, Thomas. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Fourth Edition, The University of Chicago Press, 2012.

Currently reading

Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Rise of Nationalism. Revised Edition, Verso, 1991.

Foucault, Michel. Subjectivity and Truth: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1980-1981. Edited by Frédéric Gros, translated by Graham Burchell, Picador, 2019.

Goldstein, Jan. Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Radick, Gregory. Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology. The University of Chicago Press, 2023.

Want to Read

Bassiri, Nima. Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value. The University of Chicago Press, 2024.

Graeber, David. Debt: The First 5,000 Years. Melville House, 2010.

Sahlins, Marshall. What Kindship Is-And Is Not. University of Chicago Press, 2013.